A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti…
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- nonfiction
- school
- essays
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
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- school
3. No Telephone to Heaven
By: Michelle Cliff
3.80
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political … read more
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- school
"She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages bearing vague stains, fingered, smoothed. She opened the …"-Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven
"I was fortunate I knew her here." She heard her voice, clipped, distant—suddenly—as if she were describing a third-form teacher who had taught her Linnaean classification. No, she said to herself. I …"-Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven
4. Abeng
By: Michelle Cliff
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Ever since Abeng was first published… read more
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- school
5. The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Lloyd Osbourne
3.43
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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- travel
- classics
6. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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- classics
- school
"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
7. Beka Lamb
By: Zee Edgell
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Set in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. The poli… read more
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"When the rains finally came that drought year, Beka's Dad tried to persuade Lilla to concentrate on bougainvillea, crotons, and hibiscus. Plants like these grew easily and luxuriantly in the yard, bu…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib pe…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance.…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"Peace and happiness!' Miss Ivy was laughing an ugly laugh that hurt Beka's ear. She jumped off the platform and went to stand a the kitchen door. There was a hurt look on Lilla's face, and seeing it,…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
8. Migritude
By: Shailja Patel
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
The U.S. debut of internationally acclaimed poet and performance artist Shailja Patel, Migritudeis … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
9. GraceLand
By: Chris Abani
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
This novel is set in Maroko, a sprawling, swampy, crazy and colorful ghetto of Lagos, Nigeria, and … read more
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10. Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Lloyd Osbourne
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
'"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"' In Treasure Island, a weathere… read more
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- classics
11. A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- essays
12. A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more
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- classics
- history
- memoir
- school
- travel
- nonfiction
- essays
13. Foreigners
By: Caryl Phillips
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and affecting new book from Caryl Phillips: a brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, an… read more
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14. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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15. Singoalla
By: Viktor Rydberg
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1913 edition by Albert Bonniers Forlag, Stoc… read more
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16. Praisesong for the Widow
By: Paule Marshall
4.21
Format: 160 pages,
Throwing into suitcases all she brought with her on this Caribbean cruise, Avey Johnson knows she h… read more
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17. The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
By: Kei Miller
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of k… read more
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18. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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19. Miguel Street
By: V.S. Naipaul
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say Slum! because he could see no more. But t… read more
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20. Anthills of the Savannah
By: Chinua Achebe
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellenc… read more
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21. The Farming of Bones
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Farming of Bonesbegins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates t… read more
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22. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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23. Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
By: Karen Tei Yamashita
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with… read more
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24. At the Full and Change of the Moon
By: Dionne Brand
4.36
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Written with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand's second novel is an… read more
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25. ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
By: None , Tomás Rivera
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vi… read more
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- classics
- school
"I recall that one time he told the people to read the poems out loud because the spoken word was the seed of love in the darkness."-None, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
26. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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- classics
- school
"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
27. Stacken
By: Annika Norlin
4.16
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Vad är det som händer nere vid vattnet? Emelie har flytt staden förr skogen och ser plötsligt en g… read more
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28. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
29. The Countess Cathleen
By: W.B. Yeats
3.18
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
"The Countess Cathleen" is a poetic play written by William Butler Yeats, one of the most celebrate… read more
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- classics
30. antes que isla es volcán / before island is volcano: poemas / poems
By: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
4.26
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
From the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet: a powerful, inventive new collec… read more
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31. A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
4.37
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saa… read more
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- history
- school
- essays
